Marquee selection like PS

[jmatthes]

Hi

I've got do doubt this may have been asked before but I can't seem to find an answer.

I was wondering if there is a similar feature to what Photoshop has with its marquee selection where it would go from a box selection to selecting the image having detected its edges? I'd like to tie this feature in with creating masks etc. It's the one feature that would help me move on from photoshop entirely.

Thanks

[Hangman]

Hi @jmatthes and welcome to the forums...

I may have completely misunderstood what you are looking for here but would the Selection Brush Tool with Snap to edges selected in the context toolbar give you what you need?

This is a very rough and ready clip to demonstrate...

 

[jmatthes]

Well it's even simpler than that, so I may also have this approach wrong because I'm very used to Photoshop and it's way of doing things. But I have the box marquee tool selected over this drone, I had used the selection brush tool you mentioned but I would like to draw around the object and to click the mask button to create a mask around the image. to get to this stage I had used the brush selection tool to select the solid background colour and now I'd like to turn this into a mask.

[Hangman]

In which case you may be better off using the Flood Select Tool since the drone is on a plain colour background...

Select the layer in the Layers Panel and then click drag over the red background using the Flood Select Tool to make your selection, invert the pixel selection using Select > Invert Pixel Selction and then add a Mask using the Quick Mask icon at the bottom of the Layers Panel or by going Layer > New Mask Layer...

Then you can crop your image using the crop tool as appropriate...

[Westerwälder]

Immer wieder diese Hinweise auf PS.
Wer lernen will kommt mit Affinity Photo auch zum Ziel.
Ich möchte kein PS haben, lieber eine andere Funktion die mich schnell zum Ziel führt. 
Dieses das habe ich immer so gemacht, das mache ich weiter so, warum soll ich das ändern, da dachte ich immer das wäre eine typisch  deutsche Beamten Weisheit.
Es scheint so, das ist weiter verbreitet wie nur bei Beamten!

Google übersetzer:

Again and again these references to PS.
If you want to learn, you can get there with Affinity Photo.
I don't want to have PS, I'd rather have another function that leads me quickly to my goal.
I've always done this, I'll keep doing it, why should I change it, I always thought that was typical German civil servant wisdom.
It seems that this is more common than only among officials!

[Komatös]

@Westerwälder

Genau so ist es. Ich sage immer: Wer immer dass macht was er kann, wird nie herausfinden ob er/sie etwas kann, was er/sie noch nie gemacht hat.

That's exactly how it is. I always say: If you always do what you can, you'll never find out if you can do something you've never done before.

[jmatthes]

Amazing this is fantastic thanks! This is super helpful and gets me exactly what I needed

Now I can leave photoshop behind, just a bit too used to PS creature comforts. and as Komatos said, you don't know what you don't know